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Published: 5 Febuary 2009

Much Ardó about nothing...

FOR many artists “ordinary” is the last taboo. Zsuzsanna Ardó disagrees. Her photographs are odes to the normal.
“It’s the old question of how the ordinary shows itself to be quite extraordinary,” she says. “The little gestures that look insignificant [until] you look at them closely.”
Urban Resonances: Paris, an exhibition of Ardó’s black and white photographs “in the humanist style”, transfers from the Pompidou Centre in Paris to the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead at the beginning of February.
The Hungarian-born photographer and academic, who lives in Hampstead and established the Hampstead Authors’ Society, took the pictures over a two-year period, retreading the steps of her fellow countryman, the photographer André Kertész.
“Kertész is seen in Europe as one of the founders of photography,” says Ardó.
Her work studies the connections between people and places and, in a nod to the exhibition’s Valentine’s Day slot, “how people resonate with one another”.
SIMON WROE

• Urban Resonances: Paris, an exhibition of photographs by Zsuzsanna Ardó is at the Everyman cinema club, Holly Bush Vale, open daily 12pm-11pm from February 7-March 5. Entry is free.

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